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A Brief History
of Wolstone Manor |
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Wolstone Manor was an important estate in North Cornwall and is recorded in the Domesday Book as being owned by Saewulf before 1066 |
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In 1993an archaeological survey records medieval motte, a chapel of St George and a Holy Well.
�Today the original Manor no longer exist and the farm offers self catering holidays |
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Wolstone has seen many notorious owners ;in past centuries. Perhaps the most villainous was John Beville who in 1358 was tried for murder and only his position in society saved him.� His speciality was kidnapping wealthy merchants and imprisoning ;them until a ransom was paid. |
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The grandson of a later Beville, John Wydeslade, organised the rebellion against the introduction of English prayer book in 1549.of which Sir Thomas Pomeroy was a part. Wyndeslade was defeated at the Battle of Cliftondown and was executed at Tyburn. |
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�In 17th century the Grenville's led the Royalist fight in the West Country in the English Civil War but defeat brought destruction of their manor houses, Wolstone amongst them.
The barton farm still exists today, calling itself Woolston Manor Farm. [barton being OE for home farm.] |
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In 1576 Wolstone was sold to Sir Richard Grenville whose father, Roger Grenville, Captain of the famous ship the Mary Rose, when it sank off Portsmouth watched by King Henry VIII.
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From the remains of the derelict manor, the present farmhouse was built around 1680. After being owned by a famous Cornish tin mining family, the Bassets of Tehidy, it eventually passed to Edward Mucklow in 1875. |
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�Throughout the 20th century four generations of the Bluett family owned Wolstone but gradually the old medieval buildings became unsuitable for modern farming and fell into disrepair. |
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Henry KILLIGREW was born in Wolston, Cornwall ; his daughter
Blanche KILLIGREW was born inWolston, Cornwall, and died 14 DEC 1596. |
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She married John WREY. He was born in North Russell, Devon and died APR 1577. |
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Children of Blanche KILLIGREW and John WREY; included
Sir William Wrey ,Knight , Of Trebigh (in St Cleer Cornwall ) died JUN 1636.
He married Elizabeth COURTENAY 1600, daughter of William COURTENAY, born in Powderham Castle,Devon |
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Their daughter Phillipa married Sir William Upton of Puslinch Newton Ferrers. |
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1458 |
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Isabella Bevill daughter of Humphrey Bevill of Wolstone He was born in Ipswich and his daughter Isabella was married in Ipswich to Thomas Worth of Wolstone son of Thomas Worth and Elizabeth Milliton.
There was a dispute between this pair over lands at Wolstone. |
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Thomas Worth married Isabella Bevill daughter of Humphrey Bevill of Wolstone and there was a dispute between them over lands at Wolstone. Thomas Worth was son of Thomas Worth and Elizabeth Milliton |
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Declaration by Robert Spurway of Teverton, Devon, gentleman; that at the session of peers;holden at Exeter after Michaelmas Henry VI [1458] he endeavored to persuade THOMAS WORTHE to agree to an equal partition with John Wynard of the lands of HUMFEY BEVILE (a.k.a. Devile) in Wolston (or Wolveston or Wolneston) as yet undivided. Whereto the said Thomas agreed for his tyme with that Isabelle his wife [that they] wold thereto consent, [if] and also that all deedis contayning the inheritances of his owne descente whych wer a little befor taken away by the said John might be first to him devised again, upon which desire of deedis and of other thyngs the co-partyners varied and departed in wrath in my presence and hearing.
The paper draft of the grant which should have settled this dispute appears in this exhibit as No. 28.22 1501 May 23
Certificate of John Brode, curate of Mynster in the county of Cornwall, the freeholders of which parish are suitors to Edward lord Hastings by reason of the honour of Botreaux Castle and Worthevale in the said parish, of which honour the manor of Wolston is held, that on the Sunday before Whitsunday THOMAS WORTHE of Worthe in Devon,esquire, came and prayed me in my parish church to examine my parisshioners upon the name [of the said manor] to saie the trouth, Thay enswearing me with oon vois said Wolston [that it was] not know[n]e by that name Wolneston by any of [them who] can remember and that thay alle praied me in ther behalf so to testi We. |
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THOMAS WORTH ;the son , was building on an already extensive patrimony in neighbouring Devonshire. It sheds light on the type of jury vote which was often employed to determine the ownership or tenurial history of a piece of land. If the deeds held by Thomas described his lands as lying in a place which no longer existed, as far as public opinion was concerned he might lose his right to them through the misnomer.
It is also a perfect example of how place-names might change over time: the pronunciations of the original Wolneston or Wolviston had become unrecognizable, since the locals thought of their manor as Wolston (and probably pronounced it Wooston ) |
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| Dispute appears in the records of Harvard University. |
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